Example sentences of "afford [to-vb] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , it is now becoming increasingly apparent that neither superpower can afford to sustain the level of economic and military aid that has been provided hitherto to allies and client states . |
| 2 | When state-supported secondary education was introduced in 1878 , a denominational system was officially set up , though at this time the system was only availed of by the few families who could afford to lose the labour of young teenagers . |
| 3 | The corruption went unchecked because the system could not afford to acknowledge the extent of its own inefficiencies and failures . |
| 4 | The Carers National Association is concerned about what will happen to those people whose relatives can no longer afford to meet the cost of the top-up payments . |
| 5 | By the late 1980s no African government could afford to neglect the significance of the sector for the employment of the hundreds of thousands of primary and secondary school leavers who were joining the labour market each year , and most were making policy statements which indicated some support for it . |
| 6 | If we are to combat any attempt of the Right to exploit issues involving sexuality in order to hang onto power , we can not afford to neglect the virtue of solidarity — which involves a certain restraint concerning our feelings bout what other people do in bed . |
| 7 | While the state could not develop without female labour ( at one time , as a result of Stalin 's purges and World War II , there were 40% more women than men in the working population ) , equally , it could not afford to replace the role of the wife and mother in the home . |
| 8 | Clearly there were many people who could n't afford to escape the heat of the city . |
| 9 | Because of the nature of this sort of book you can afford to let the identity of the murderer become more obvious much earlier than if you were writing the classical blueprint . |
| 10 | By contrast , the solid fuel merchant can afford to vary the content of what goes into pre-packed bags of household fuel , provided the weight is correct . |
| 11 | A lecturer at the Architectural Exhibition of 1861 noted that ‘ we can not afford to ignore the element of association which now more than ever connects our idea of churches with good Gothic architecture . |
| 12 | WACC can ill afford to ignore the multiplicity of religious or pseudo religious meanings which are part of today 's media world , no matter how vague they may be . |
| 13 | It is true that ethical values are to an extent also transmitted through markets , with the effect that a company committed to profit maximisation can not afford to ignore the impact of its activities on others . |
| 14 | Erm one of the issues is going to be is whether or not we can afford to improve the level of the commitments apart from adding things as we go through . |